However many holy words you read, however many you speak,what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?- The Buddha

The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.- Alvin Toffler

Take time to laugh.It is the music of the soul.Take time to think.It is the source of power.Take time to play.It is the source of perpetual youth.Take time to read.It is the fountain of wisdom.Take time to pray.It is the greatest power on Earth.Take time to love and be loved.It is a God-given privilege.Take time to be friendly.It is the road to happiness.Take time to give.It is too short a day to be selfish.Take time to work.It is the price of success.- Anonymous

To a philosopher all news,as it is called, is gossip,and they who edit and read itare old women over their tea.- Henry David Thoreau

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I once had a rose named after meand I was very flattered.But I was not pleased to readthe description in the catalogue:no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Each of us is of infinite value,and each of us has the ability to makea profound difference in the lives we touch.We leave our most profoundly positive impacton those around us by the nature of our livesand the example we set -not by how busy we are,or how important we believe we are.Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,regardless of external circumstances,is a great legacy for our family and for the world.Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,without taking time for self-renewal and play,abandons the joy and the true value of life.I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

O Day of days when we can read!The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.- Henry David Thoreau

The more I read, the more I meditate;and the more I acquire,the more certain I am that I know nothing.- Voltaire

Read the best books first,or you may not have a chance to read them at all.- Henry David Thoreau

If you can speak what you will never hear,if you can write what you will never read,you have done rare things.- Henry David Thoreau

If I read a book that impresses me,I have to take myself firmly in handbefore I mix with other people;otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.- Anne Frank

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true,But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,And loved the sorrows of your changing face;And bending down beside the glowing bars,Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fledAnd paced upon the mountains overheadAnd hid his face amid a crowd of stars.- William Butler Yeats

Where the press is free and every manis able to read, all is safe.- Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our wordsthat our religion must be read.- Thomas Jefferson

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.- Groucho Marx

When you read God's Word, you mustconstantly be saying to yourself,"It is talking to me, and about me."- Soren Kierkegaard

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month,and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.- Thomas Jefferson

I read that you should never go out with someoneif you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.- Winston Churchill

Autobiographies are only as usefulas the lives you read about and analyzemay suggest to you something thatyou may find useful in your own journey through life.- Eleanor Roosevelt

The man who does not read good bookshas no advantage over the man who cannot read them.- Mark Twain

In boundless love as a Christian and as a manI read through the passage which tells ushow the Lord at last rose in His mightand seized the scourge to drive out of the Templethe brood of vipers and of adders.- Adolf Hitler

This report, by its very length, defends itselfagainst the risk of being read.- Winston Churchill

The things I want to know are in books;my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.- Abraham Lincoln

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.- Charles Darwin

The length of this document defends it wellagainst the risk of its being read.- Winston Churchill

If I were to try to read, much less answer,all the attacks made on me,this shop might as well be closed for any other business.- Abraham Lincoln

One must be an inventor to read well.There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When life is too easy for us, we must bewareor we may not be ready to meet the blowswhich sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We never see what we are not ready to see.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we will be quiet and ready enough,we shall find compensation in every disappointment.- Henry David Thoreau

The secret of success in life is for a man to be readyfor his opportunity when it comes.- Benjamin Disraeli

The man who goes alone can start today;but he who travels with anothermust wait till that other is ready.- Henry David Thoreau

I am ready and willing to seize the opportunities life offers.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,I spend one-third of my time thinking about myselfand what I am going to sayand two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.- Abraham Lincoln

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.- Buddhist Proverb

It's one of life's great paradoxes ...Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at usis critical to happiness.Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.The best we can do in the face of this paradoxis to play to win, but be cheerful in defeatand ready to play again.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are always getting ready to live but never living.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be ready to learn from one another,not claiming that we alone possess all truthand that somehow we have a corner on God.- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Everyone has an opinion on many subjectsand is ready to share those opinions -labeling them as "truth."Sometimes it is relatively easyto filter out these opinions.Upon hearing an ad for the latestweight-loss powder on late-night TV,our skepticism leaps to our defense.However, if we have heard the same opinion for yearsfrom our parents, friends,government officials, or religious leaders,we are more likely to believe without questioningthan to raise our filter of skepticismand ask the hard questions.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Personally, I'm always ready to learn,although I do not always like being taught.- Winston Churchill

Marriage is a fine institution -but I'm not ready for an institution yet.- Mae West

Some years ago I became president of Columbia Universityand learned within 24 hours to be readyto speak at the drop of a hat,and I learned something more, the trustees were expectedto be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,leave your friend to learnunpleasant things from his enemies;they are ready enough to tell them.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is also something excellent in every audience,the capacity of virtue.They are ready to be beatified.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am always ready to learnalthough I do not always like being taught.- Winston Churchill

Any man who reads too muchand uses his own brain too littlefalls into lazy habits of thinking.- Albert Einstein

Before the throne of the Almighty,man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.For God alone reads our hearts.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Reading, after a certain age,diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too littlefalls into lazy habits of thinking.- Albert Einstein

My diary is a mirror telling the story of a dreamer who,a long long time ago went through life the way one reads a book.- Anais Nin

The man who reads nothing at allis better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.- Thomas Jefferson

I have never written a book that didn't teach mefar more than it taught any reader.- Isaac Asimov

Today, like every other day, we wake up emptyand frightened. Don't open the door to the studyand begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.Let the beauty we love be what we do.There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.Just get people to stop reading them.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,which are as necessary as reading.I will rather say more necessarybecause health is worth more than learning.- Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad governmentresults from too much government.- Thomas Jefferson

Reading about nature is fine, but if a personwalks in the woods and listens carefully,he can learn more than what is in books,for they speak with the voice of God.- George Washington Carver

Be careful about reading health books.You may die of a misprint.- Mark Twain

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;walk today's march with courage;create today as your celebration of life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to dance lightly with life,sing wild songs of adventure,invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How do you want to be remembered?Live life full out - Begin today.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?Or is today a day to sit by the fireand watch the storm rage outside?Either way, the storm is just life.Give thanks for all of Life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie